Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

30th April 1725

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10th April 1725


THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE his ACCOUNT, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and dying Words of the Mslefactors, who were Executed on Friday the 30th of April last at Tyburn.

AT the KING?S Commission of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery of Newgate, Held (before the Right Hon. Sir George Merttins< no role > , Knt . Lord Mayor of the City of London , Mr. Justice Tracey, Sir William Thompson< no role > , Knt . Recorder , Mr. Serjeant Raby, and several of His Majesty?s Justices of the Peace, for the City of London, and County of Middlesex) at Justice-Hall in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, being the 7th , 8th , 9th , and 10th days of April , in the eleventh Year of His Majesty?s Reign; nine Men and Four Women were by the Jury found Guilty of Capital Offences, and received Sentence of Death.

Of these Thirteen Persons, with Three others who were Capitally Convicted at the preceeding. Sessions Six received His Majesty?s Reprieve. The Others finding themselves included in the Warrant for Execution, began then to drop those Expectations, which, till the Report is made to His Majesty, Malefactors constantly flatter Themselves with. During their Continuance under Sentence of Death, I instructed them from these Words, Heb. II. latter part of the 6th, ver. He that cometh to God, must believe that be is, and that be is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

They were also shown the principal Branches of the Law of Nature, from the following Words of St. Paul, which follow after the Apostle has blamed and accused the Generality of the Heathens for not Glorifying the Deity as God, after they had learned his eternal Power and Godhead, from the Works that are seen, the wonders of Creation; but on the Contrary, turning aside to Stones, and Four-footed Beasts, and creeping Things.




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